Obamatrade: Nowhere For Supporters To Hide
OUT OF EXCUSES … IT’S TIME FOR CONGRESS TO REJECT THIS POWER GRAB || By FITSNEWS || WhYou must Subscribe or log in to read the rest of this content.
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I’ll be waiting for Nikki’s hard-line position on this matter.
You and I may be they only ones here who see this almost-legal bribery scheme for what it really is.
(I do believe FITs is not completely clueless. Without this little expose’ this bit of chicanery might have gone unnoticed.)
Congress calls that a normal Thursday afternoon.
This the most inane article I have ever read. Nothing has hurt the American worker more than Republican free trade deals. Republican policies have always been behind the outsourcing of American jobs to cheap labor markets.
Republicans are schizophrenic when it comes to trade. They want “free trade” so long as its negotiated by a Republican President. They believe the outsourcing of US jobs is good for the economy, unless a Democrat is President. They don’t even understand their own position. If free trade in goods is the best policy, then free trade in labor is the best policy. There should be no quotas on how many cheap foreign workers you can bring into the US to work in your business or factory. After all, that is the free market.
Of course there is a better answer. Fair Trade in goods and labor. We should only grant most favored nation status to countries with labor standards and wages reasonably close to ours. Those policies are best for America and the American worker. But Republicans don’t give a crap about the American worker. They have shown that over and over. From their union busting, to their outsourcing, to their tax policies, they have shown they are on the side of large corporations and the mega wealthy, and they are willing to screw the average American to benefit those people.
So what are they really concerned about here. They assume Obama is doing what they would do if they were in power. Cut deals for large corporations and billionaires who pay them. They are afraid, some of their contributors are being cut out of the pie, and they are being paid by billionaires to prevent that from happening.
“Republicans are schizophrenic when it comes to trade. They want “free trade” so long as its negotiated by a Republican President. They believe the outsourcing of US jobs is good for the economy, unless a Democrat is President. They don’t even understand their own position. If free trade in goods is the best policy, then free trade in labor is the best policy. There should be no quotas on how many cheap foreign workers you can bring into the US to work in your business or factory. After all, that is the free market. ”
I 100% agree with this statement of yours.(though, not the rest)
Even though I don’t agree with what you claim the “solution” to be(managed trade), you absolutely hit the head of the nail with the above statement.
Cato and the GOP are for “free markets” when it suits them. Neither are principled about it, taking the long term good with the short term bad, because they truly don’t believe if free markets when it comes to the “tough” decisions.
So even though you obviously don’t believe in free markets either, at least you are honest about it. So for that, “kudos” to you, even though I disagree with your viewpoint at least I know you are honest.
As for “Obamatrade”, I have yet to see any evidence that taxpayers would be subsidizing the movement of jobs overseas. If someone actually shows me the part of the proposed law where that is possible, then I’d obviously be against it…I just have yet to see it aside from rhetoric.
Free trade requires no management, but since we don’t have that in this country, legislation that would remove barries to trade, which “Obamatrade” seems to do(and I might be wrong), are at least a step in the right direction.
There is nothing free about the Deal. This is pure quasi-legal bribery of public officials and the republic rats and demicans are both equally dirty.
To imply that the whistleblowers are implicated is exactly what the poli-wogs ordered.
Both of you, Jack and Yep!, are Helots … Willing shills and unknowing dupes of the “progressives”.
Your shallow attempt at divisiveness is all too obvious.
“To imply that the whistleblowers are implicated is exactly what the poli-wogs ordered.”
To imply the GOP has “whistleblowers” in it on this topic is completely out of touch with reality.
“Willing shills and unknowing dupes of the “progressives”.”
lol…and confirming your batshit crazy rant, you say two contradictory things, in the same sentence none the less.
Go back to your regularly scheduled programming.
Sit down and shut the fuck up – and go back to drinking your favorite drink; Obama Kool Aid topped with his special blend of liquid babies.
Many foreign nations will not have any trouble ponying up some grease for whichever congress critter is using these bills, this “soft core” extortion …
This is a simple plot to get around any ethical improprieties and bribery statutes that might embarrass certain poli-wog/bagmen and “bund-dollars” of payola/swag/vigorish/bribes for campaign and PAC “donations”, offshore junketing, group partying … ala The Slick One’s Party Cruises or Hillary’s Saudi paybacks.
The Usual Suspects in this back donor cash for access scheme cross party lines, of course. How are ya going to keep ’em down on the farm after they’ve seen how DC does it?
So much for transparency …
“the father of the free market himself, Adam Smith,”
NO HE IS NOT!!
The father of Free Trade was: David Ricardo, not Adam Smith!!!
Comparative Advantage and all that goes with it came from David Ricardo in the early 1800s. He also stated that it is totally wrong to go to a foreign country and allow it to sell back into the original country. In other words: The USA allowing factories to move off shore, then sell back into the US market without restrictive tariffs will cause the USA economy to fail.
Just as has happened today.
But, but, but Bush said exporting jobs was good for America. So you must be wrong.
And, Bill Clinton signed the NAFTA deal that screwed all American workers. They, Reagan, and Bush 1, were all full of crap on how to do trade deals. Now, even Obama is screwing US workers with his ObamaTrade Pack Deal. Even his supporters are going: “What the Fu**”!